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The following article written by George R. Knight was published in Adventist World and provides guidance on a balanced reading and understanding of the writings of Ellen White for the 21st Century.

What are we to make of a writer who advised women to shorten their dresses eight inches in a world in which many wear them too short already, or who counseled that Adventist schools should teach girls to harness and drive a horse when most of them will never need that information? Part of the problem is …

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Guest contributor, the author of Life More Abundantly, encourages all those struggling with waiting anxiety with insight gleaned from the life of Joseph.

Are you experiencing “waiting anxiety”? You know, the kind of anxiety you get when the relentless clock is ticking, and it seems God isn’t coming to the rescue. Perhaps you’re single and you’re not getting any younger, while everyone else around you seems to be finding someone and living happily ever after. You wonder, “When will my time come? Is God really …

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Guest contributor, Michael, shares insights into the Biblical concept of swearing and how it relates to modern foul language.

I recently read the Sermon on the Mount again. It is one of my favorite passages in the entire Bible. One segment jumps out at me every time, and it’s not because it’s confusing or especially great, but it was one thing that I always thought was really strange in the way people used it:

33You know that our ancestors were told, “Don’t use the Lord’s name …

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Guest contributor, Elizabeth, shares insights from our Lord Jesus Christ about letting go of the worries that burden our daily lives.

In such a world as we all live in this day and age, so much we’ve become over encumbered by. So much has piled itself within our lives and at our feet, that so often we find ourselves choking, sputtering and struggling to stay a float. Are we taking on too much? Has …

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Guest contributor, Nilopher, shares the Biblical answer to the question: “What happens when we die?”

To understand what happens when we die, we have to understand what the soul is. “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” ~ Genesis 2:7

The scriptures tell us that the soul is not something we have inside our bodies. The soul is the person itself. When God created Adam, He didn’t give Adam a soul. …

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